Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza

A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway

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The plan….• Objectives• Review

– Barrio Boy & A Day’s Wait– Ernesto Galarza & Ernest Hemingway

• Compare and Contrast• Fill in the Table• Complete the Venn Diagram• Evaluation

– Questions

• Homework– Unfinished Classwork

• Preview: All Summer in a Day

Objectives• Students will develop compare and

contrast skills

• Students will demonstrate reading and listening comprehension skills by completing graphic organizers

• Barrio Boy tells about an important real event in the writer’s life.

• A Day’s Wait is the story of an imagined boy on a single day.

• Ernesto Galarza» When he was seven years old, Ernesto Galarza

moved form Mexico to California. There his fam-ily harvested crops in the field of Sacramento and struggled to make ends meet. Galarza learned English quickly and won a scholarship for college.

» Helping farm workers from 1936 to 1947, Galarza served as chief of the division of Labor and Social information for the Pan-American Union, dealing with education and labor in Latin America. When he returned to California, he worked to gain rights for farm workers.

Ernest Hemingway

A true adventurer, Ernest Hemingway based much of his writing on his own experiences. He served as an ambulance driver in World War I, worked as a journalist, traveled the world, and enjoyed outdoor sports.

Writing about the familiar, Hemingway’s fiction celebrated his spirit of adventure. The story “ A Day’s Wait” captures the quite bravery of many of his characters.

Fiction and Nonfiction• Fiction is prose writing that tells about imagi-

nary characters and events. – Novels, novellas, and short stories are types of fic-

tion.

• Nonfiction is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about REAL people, places, objects, or events.– News articles, essays, and historical accounts are

types of nonfiction.

• Barrio Boy – Nonfiction (narrative)

• About real people • Has characters

• A Day’s Wait– fiction (narrative).

• About imaginary char-acters

• Has characters

Both selections are examples of narrative writing. They each tell a story with the following elements.• A narrator that tells the

story.• Characters, or real people

living the story.• Dialogue, or the

conversations that characters have

• Story events that make up the action

Compare and Contrast

Barrio Boy

Real charac-ters

Both

Characters

A Day’s Wait

Imaginary

characters

Title

Author

Style & Genre

Narrator (1st person or 3rd)

Characters

Setting

Where? when?

What is the problem?

Why? Did the character have a problem?

Important Events

Which events make up the action of the story?

What is the solution?

How did the character solve the problem? How was it solved?

Lesson

What did the characters or readers learn?

How are the stories the same or similar?

Evaluation:

How are the stories different?

Complete the table and Venn diagram

Classwork/Homework:

All Summer in a Day

Preview:

The End